We were recently in Paris for design week and as big fans of <a title="Paris´ Museé du Quai Branly Behind The Eiffel Tower Boasts a Luscious Vertical Garden by Patrick Blanc" href="http://inhabitat.com/index.php?s=patrick+blanc" target="_blank">Patrick Blanc's work</a>, we just couldn't miss a visit to the <a title="Paris´ Museé du Quai Branly Behind The Eiffel Tower Boasts a Luscious Vertical Garden by Patrick Blanc" href="http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/" target="_blank">Museé du Quai Branly</a>. Designed by renowned architect Jean Nouvel, its Seine-facing facade has been covered with an impressive 650-foot-long green wall that serves as natural insulation and improves the air quality. Located just behind the<a title="Paris´ Museé du Quai Branly Behind The Eiffel Tower Boasts a Luscious Vertical Garden by Patrick Blanc" href="http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/" target="_blank"> Eiffel Tower</a>, the museum´s many gardens also help creating healthy, recreational green spaces within the city.

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Patrick Blanc's green wall Museé Du Quai Branly in Paris

Featuring a 40-foot high and 650-foot long stunning green wall, The Museé du Quai Branly is definetely worth a visit if you are in Paris.

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Patrick Blanc's green wall Museé Du Quai Branly in Paris

Designed and planted by Gilles Clément and Patrick Blanc, it is one of Blanc´s most famous vertical gardens echo the cultural diversity of worldwide art inside the museum.

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Patrick Blanc's green wall Museé Du Quai Branly in Paris

To enter the museum, visitors have to go through swirling paths, secret gardens, trees and high grasses.

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Patrick Blanc's green wall Museé Du Quai Branly in Paris

The museum´s building was masterminded by French architect Jean Nouvel and it is composed by many volumes featuring side parasols for light control into the the interiors.

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Patrick Blanc's green wall Museé Du Quai Branly in Paris

A green oasis in the city, the museum offers relaxing green spaces within its gardens used by tourists and locals for reading, imporvised pic nics or meeting friends.

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Patrick Blanc's green wall Museé Du Quai Branly in Paris

A green-roofed concrete shelter is frequently used for kids´workshops and provides a good shelter during bad weather days.

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Patrick Blanc's green wall Museé Du Quai Branly in Paris

Exhibited under the towers´big presence, the immaculately curated ethnographic collection of indigenous art and artifecats inside comes from from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the to be showned to Paris lucky visitors.

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Patrick Blanc's green wall Museé Du Quai Branly in Paris

We were recently in Paris for design week and as big fans of Patrick Blanc's work, we just couldn't miss a visit to the Museé du Quai Branly. Designed by renowned architect Jean Nouvel, its Seine-facing facade has been covered with an impressive 650-foot-long green wall that serves as natural insulation and improves the air quality. Located just behind the Eiffel Tower, the museum´s many gardens also help creating healthy, recreational green spaces within the city.